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frum

adj
/ˈfɹʊm/

Etymology

* As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish פֿרום (frum, “religious, pious, observant”) * As a German surname, spelling variant of Fromm.

  1. borrowed from פֿרום — “religious, pious, observant”

Definitions

  1. Pious, observant

    Pious, observant; committed to obeying all the laws of Judaism.

    • I learned all about the role of the kibbutz in Israeli life. Not to mention the role of the Arab, the artist, the woman, the socialist and the frum Jew.

  2. A surname from Yiddish.

  3. A surname from Yiddish [in turn originating as a patronymic], having a father Afrom…

    A surname from Yiddish [in turn originating as a patronymic], having a father Afrom (“Abraham, Abram”)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for frum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA